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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Holland District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Holland website
37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 6 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
We haven’t verified direct planning guidance links for this authority yet. Use its official website in Council sources.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
5 BELLS BRIDGE OLD FENDYKE HOLBEACH ST JOHNS SPALDING PE12 8SH
Received 8 Dec 20252 Giles Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2GX
Received 5 May 2011The Mole Trap, Cranesgate Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Oct 1995RAVENSDALE BENS GATE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NL
Received 15 May 2025Landsdowne House 5 Holbeach Road Spalding
Received 16 Feb 2007SILVERWOOD GARDEN CENTRE BROWNS GATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING
Received 19 Apr 2016Roman Bank Sutton Crosses Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AT
Received 9 Nov 2010Roman House Common Way Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs PE13 5QH
Received 14 Jun 2019Parish of Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs `
Received 27 Aug 1996Land to East of Holbeach Manor Fleet Road Holbeach PE12 7AX
Received 18 Jun 2021Reckerby Farm Holbeach St Matthew
Received 7 Mar 2005Cuckoo Bridge Spalding
Received 3 Mar 2006Drummond House Station Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BS
Received 11 Oct 2007Adjacent to 37 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9RQ
Received 30 Apr 2025Whispering Trees 12 Jarvis Gate Sutton St James
Received 16 Nov 2007Kingsgate Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0AG
Received 28 Jun 200747 Pennygate Spalding Lincs PE11 1NN
Received 3 Feb 200613 Churchgate Spalding Lincs PE11 2RA
Received 30 Apr 2007The Red Lion 6 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7HG
Received 17 Apr 2013Former Health Centre Allenby Chase Sutton Bridge
Received 6 Jul 2004Birchgrove Garden Centre Surfleet Road Pinchbeck
Received 22 Dec 2006The Granary Bedford Place Spalding
Received 23 Oct 2007Curlew Lodge Guys Head Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 8 Mar 2010Holmlea Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8QL
Received 3 Dec 2010Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for South Holland District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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